Elyria Marks 100 Years Since Incorporation As City
Elyria reached its one hundredth birthday as an incorporated municipality today. The city’s roots trace to 1817 with Heman Ely’s settlement plans, later becoming a village in 1833 and a city in 1892. Historic milestones include early industries, a stagecoach network, a 1829 newspaper, and the first street lighting.
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Elyria
Black River
Heman Ely
Ely
Ohio
Lorain County
Cleveland
St. Patrick’s Day
Main Street
Beebe
Prisoner Leaps From Train Window in Cleveland Escape
Paul Baker 25, alleged leader of a tire theft ring, dived through a Pullman window as a Nickel Plate train neared Union Terminal in Cleveland while being returned from Brooklyn for trial. He fled with a deputy U.S. marshal and another prisoner in the coach, leaving a blood trail from broken glass. Baker and Joe Yorks had been arrested in Brooklyn after tires valued at $75,000 were found in a warehouse. Baker is considered a dangerous fugitive sought by federal marshals and police.
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Cleveland
Paul Baker
Union Terminal
Brooklyn
Baker
Joe Yorks
United States Marshal
Nickel Plate
U. S
York
Booklyn
Here
Akron
Elyria Man Held Up In Lakeside Biscuit Office Heist
W H Jones of 311 15tao street Elyria part of Lakeside Biscuit Co sales team held hostage during an armed robbery at the Cleveland offices. Nine salesmen and manager Albert Years faced robbers who forced cash and jewelry into a hat. Robbers fled with about 115 dollars in cash and jewelry. Police arrived within minutes after the night watchman raised the alarm.
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W. H. Jones
15Tao Street
Flyria
Lakeside Biscuit Company
East 69Th Street
Cleveland
Albert Lee
Leemars
Ohio forecast: partly cloudy and colder with rain
Partly cloudy and colder tonight with rain in the northeast. Sunday brings more cold and cloudy skies across central and eastern Ohio.
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Ohio
Air Mail Plane Destroyed By Fire In Toledo
N A Nick Laurenzana, 26, of Cleveland, piloted the air mail plane that struck a fence and burned on takeoff from Lemoyne Ohio airport during a storm. He escaped injury as 500 pounds of mail were destroyed and boundary lights were out due to a lightning strike. He said bad weather forced him to stop and deliver two mail sacks before attempting takeoff again.
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Toledo
N. A
Nick” Laurenzana
Cleveland
Lemoyne
Laurenzana
Cleerland
Chicago
Health Board to request council action on School Street sewer
Elyria Board of Health plans to register another protest with the city council over Sanitary conditions on School Street and seek acceptance of the street and installation of a sewer. The delay stems from title questions. The meeting also covered monthly health reports showing scarlet fever declines and numerous nursing activities.
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School Street
Elyria City Council
Elyria Board of Health
Health Board
G. E. French
Kathryn Fulton
E. Agate
F. H. Williams
E. G. Curtiss
Sales tax meeting postponed in Elyria
Plans for a sales tax discussion in Columbus were dropped due to lack of attendees. Two Elyrians will travel to Columbus Wednesday for a conference on the proposed bills. Goldstein leads the Lorain County sales tax committee, Bacon represents the Elyria Merchants Division.
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Ohio
Max Goldstein
Earl D. Bacon
Columbus
Goldstein
Lorain County
Ohio Council of Retail Merchants
Bacon
Merchants
Elyria Chamber of Commerce
Mayor Anton Cermak in Critical Condition After Shooting
Miami reports from February 25 indicate Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak, wounded in the Roosevelt assassination attempt, is placed under an oxygen tent at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Dr. E Nichol calls his recovery prospects frankly pessimistic as heart strain and lung congestion persist despite stimulants and glucose infusions.
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Miami
Fla
Anton J. Cermak
Chicago
Roosevelt
Jackson Memorial Hospital
E. Nichol
Anton Cermak
Cermak
Nichol
J. W. Snyder
Rotary Club to Hear John R. Bentley Speaker
Elyria Rotary Club will host John R. Bentley past district governor of Rotary International as speaker at the Elks Club noon meeting Tuesday. His topic remains unannounced.
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John R. Bentley
Cleveland
Rotary International
Elyria
Youths confess plot in plane theft death case in Texas
San Benito district attorney says three local youths signed confessions linking the death of 33 year old flying instructor Lehman Nelson and the later suicide of his 21 year old student to a scheme to steal a plane.
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San Benito
Tex
D. 8
Purl
Lehman Nelson
Progressives Readout Sparks Plan for Nonpartisan Group
Senator Norris proposes forming a national nonpartisan progressive organization after Reed urges action to read four bolting Republicans from the Senate. Norris will seek to eject Norris, Cutting, Johnson, and LaFollette from the GOP at the next Republican conference.
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Washington
Reed
Repn
Senate Progressives
Norris
Senate Republicans
Cutting
N. M
Johnson
Calif
LaFollette
Wis
Law student kills father and sister then fakes life
In Rochester New York on February 25 a 26 year old law student William Lutz fatally shot his father and sister and mortally wounded another sister at their home after repeated bar exam failures. He then killed himself with a gun.
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Rochester
N. Y
William Lutz
Storm Rages Across North Sea and Channel
A late winter storm swept the North Sea, the English Channel, Ireland and Northern England today, causing heavy property damage, disrupting shipping, and endangering scores of lives.
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North Sea
English Channel
London
Ireland
England
Passage of liberalizing Celler Bill approved by House
The House anti prohibitionists won a repeal victory by passing the Celler Bill to liberalize medicinal liquor prescriptions. The roll call was 168 to 160 and the measure heads to the Senate for action. Also, Mayor Cermak is to receive blood transfusions in Miami after noon, per Dr. Frederick Tice.
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Washington
House
Celler
Senate
Cermak
Miami
Fla
Frederick Tice
Chicago
Former county surveyor shoots three commissioners in Celina
Bert Morrison, 55, shot at three county commissioners with Wright and Kloeb nearby in Celina Ohio. He wounded two officials, then killed himself with a final shot to the head. Commissioner Frysinger is paralyzed from the blast and not expected to survive. Goettemoeller was seriously wounded but recovering.
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Celina
Bert Morrison
Morrison
Wright
Louis Wills
Greenville
Frank L. Kloeb
Charles R. Frysinger
Rockford
Ohio
Fred Goettemoeller
St. Rosa
Frysinger
Court House
Wills
Chinese Woman Awarded 2500 Verdict in Assault Case
A Lorain jury awarded Chinese immigrant a $2,500 damages verdict against Thomas Hebron a Lorain steel worker for an alleged criminal assault about a year earlier. Hebron already had prior assault and battery convictions and served 30 days in jail. A new trial motion was filed by his lawyers.
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Hebron
Enmity Arises After Tight Election For Surveyor Post
Morrison, a Greenville salesman, showed enmity toward Wright after Wright defeated him in the last election for surveyor. Morrison had faced repeated financial reverses after careers as schoolmaster, road builder, surveyor, real estate dealer, and trader in old guns. His wife says he sometimes walked the floor at night in the past year.
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Greenville Gravel Company
Morrison
Wright
Japanese Drive 0 Toward Jehol Puppet State
Japanese troops push through Jehol province seizing Chaoyang and Peipiao while Chinese forces retreat toward Lingyuan. Japanese advance to annex Jehol to Manchukuo with little Chinese resistance and a Kwantung war office report claims 1000 Chinese killed at Peipiao. Kailu also captured as final victory is predicted with limited fighting.
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Tokio
Jehol
Chaoyang
Lingyuan
Peipiao
Manchukuo
League of Nations
Jewol
War Office
Kwantung
Kailu
Ridgeville Grange to Honor George Washington Memory
The Ridgeville Grange will honor George Washington at its upcoming meeting next Tuesday. Glen West will speak on the life and work of the first president, followed by tap dancing by George Lacarr.
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George Washington
Ridgeville Grange
Glen West
Lfe
George Lacarr
Kidnaping of Chicago Night Club Owner Reported
Jeremiah Flynn of the closed Piccardy night club in Chicago was kidnapped for a $10,000 ransom. Two gunmen posing as prohibition agents seized Flynn's car, his wife was notified by phone, and investigators located the auto with the ransom demand.
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Prohibition
Chicago
Jeremiah Flynn
Flynn
Sheridan warns Ohio groups on sales tax lobbying
George V. Sheridan, secretary of the Ohio council of retail merchants, warned industrial and business groups that lobbies pushing sales tax propaganda seek to widen taxation beyond consumption. He cites the Spaght bill and notes potential shifts toward taxing gross incomes of banks, utilities, factories, mines, professionals, and advertisers. Sheridan cites Indiana as precedent for broad gross income taxation.
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Columbus, CO
Ohio
George V. Sheridan
Ohio Council of Retail Merchants
Sheridan
Road Building
Columbus
Indiana
Eviction riot in Akron injures two and leads to arrests
In Akron on February 25 three men were jailed while two injured from bullets and tear gas in an eviction riot. A mass meeting by unemployed councils and the International Labor Defense aimed to protect evictions and leaders. Deputies and police kept watch as a 200-strong sympathetic delegation urged releases.
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Akron
International Labor Defense
Joe West
Nina Wilcor
Ben Atkins
Fred Yale
J. Albert Inherst
Norman Clark
W. H. Fugitt
Cuyahoga Falls
Inherst
Edgar Allen and E. M. Rice Show Improvement in Health
The Chronicle Telegram reports both Edgar F. Allen and E. M. Rice are ill but showing steady improvement after health concerns. Their conditions were updated this afternoon, indicating careful recovery progress.
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Elyrians
Chronicle-Telegram
Edgar F. Allen
E. M. Rice
Earl Studebaker 18 Killed in Canton Auto Crash
Canton Ohio area report states Earl Studebaker age 18 died in a Friday automobile accident near Canton. The incident details are not fully disclosed in the brief notice.
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Canton, CO
Earl Studebaker
Here
Robber suspect caught as police exchange shots during school burglary
Two men fled a high school after burglars broke in at 2 30 am. One suspect named John Allen of Jersey City was captured after shots fired. another man, said from Buffalo, escaped. Allen pleaded guilty to burglary and larceny and was bound over to the grand jury under a $1000 bond. Stolen stamps were recovered from C M Williams and J Brown offices. Police, led by Lieut Patrick Crehan and officers Sayles Oldag Parker, pursued suspects.
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John Allen
Jersey City
N. J
Lil ¥ Fohlen
Patrick Crehan
C. Sayles
Ernest Oldag
C. E. Parker
Oldag
Buffalo
N.Y
Allen
C. M. Williams
J. ¥. Brown
William
Mae
W. H. van Oster
Boettcher vows ransom showdown with Denver kidnapers
Claude Boettcher the Denver financier warned he would take “very definite action” if his son Charles Boettcher II is not returned by midnight. He pledged a $60,000 ransom and warned kidnappers would kill Charlie once they have the money. The Very Rev Dagwell urged the return of the boy.
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Denver
Colo
Claude K. Boettcher
Charles Boettcher
Boettcher
Claude Boettcher
Boettecher
Charlie
B. D. Dagwell
St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral
Drowned Mrs. Swope’s Body Recovered in River
In Zanesville Ohio on February 25 the body of 33 year old Mrs. Jennie Swope was recovered Friday after drowning in the Muskingum River a week earlier.
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Zanesville, O
Jennie Swope
Muskingum River
Farm Land Week Sets Six Big Spring Sale Days
The Chronicle Telegram promotes Farm Land Week from March 18 to 18 with six days of farm real estate activity. The event encourages sale trade rent and purchase of rural property and will feature all ads reproduced in the Spring Farm Listings catalogue for free distribution next year.
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Chronicle-Telegram
Farm Land Week
New Spring Farm
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